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Date:   Mon, 01 Jun 2020 08:41:00 +0100
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To:     Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/6] irqchip: RISC-V per-HART local interrupt
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On 2020-06-01 05:09, Anup Patel wrote:
> On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 4:23 PM Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2020-05-31 11:06, Anup Patel wrote:

[...]

> Also, the PLIC spec is now owned by RISC-V foundation (not SiFive) so
> we will have to rename the driver to "irq-riscv-plic" and will have a 
> new
> generic compatible string "riscv,plic-1.0.0". One of us (me or Palmer) 
> will
> send separate patches for this renaming. I hope you will be fine with 
> this??
> (Refer, https://github.com/riscv/riscv-plic-spec)

Do we really need the churn of a renaming? A new compatible, and maybe
a new config option should be enough, no? What does the renaming give 
us?

Thanks,

         M.
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